This is an analysis of the poem Rogue Elephant that begins with:
The reason to be autonomous is to stand there,
a cleared instrument, ready to act, to search...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aX bc bd eb Xb fb cc Xf da gc gd fh bh hX Xe dX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100001000011 01100100101 0101110001011 1001101010 10011101010 1010001111 110100001010 110100111101 010101000110000 010100111101 10110010101101 100010101001 10000111110 10100101100 101110001010 1100101011 1001110011111 1111101011 1100110100 10011110 10110111001 101100100101 0100111111 010101010111 10011011101 010101001011 1011011000010 01100100010101 010110101110 01110000110 10111110101 010101001001
- Amount of stanzas: 16
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 88
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 32
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; to is repeated.
The author used the same words the, wonder at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
The poet repeated the same word no at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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- summary of Rogue Elephant;
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